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Once you decide to shop at wall-mart you can easily switch to other markets or buy items from other stores. not comparable at all. If there were basically only
by dtech 6y ago
Once you decide to shop at wall-mart you can easily switch to other markets or buy items from other stores. not comparable at all.
If there were basically only Wall-Mart and Target to buy stuff from, and you had to commit to one for 2-5 years every time, you bet they should be under heavy scrutiny.
Sony and Microsoft are a better comparison, but different because 1) their consoles are huge loss leaders, phones are not and 2) they are way less essential and used by an order of magnitude less people than phones.
- donor20 6y agoBut the irony is that loss leaders are a sign of market abuse / market power. That's the normal anti-trust claim - predatory pricing. If anything, Apple is charging a premium price for their experience. Apple has become essential and trusted in part perhaps because it has exercised near iron control over almost all aspects of their platform.